There are always fresh memories to draw on whenever the Habs and Bruins get together. Outside of the brawling (hello there, Knuckles) and Bobby Orr and Jean Béliveau and the springtime ritual of Montreal eliminating Boston, Habs fans were always treated to great goaltending.

Specific to games played in Boston, it starts, for me, with Rogatien Vachon in the late 60s but taken to another level in the spring of 1971 by Ken Dryden. By the time Patrick Roy had taken over as the best goalie in the NHL in the late 80s, the Bruins had finally figured out how to beat their archrivals in the playoffs as they handed Roy series losses in five of their last six meetings.

In the Carey Price era there were his two shutouts as a 20-year-old rookie in his first playoff match up (including the clincher on home ice in Game 7), followed the next year by a four-game Boston sweep of an injury-depleted Habs team (“Carey Price is a thoroughbred,” was the lasting quote by GM Bob Gainey...